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Defense Attorney Questions Witness in Anna Nicole Smith’s Case



anna.jpgThough it has been some time since Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith’s death, court trials regarding the demise of the celebrity still continues at present. Last August 16 at Los Angeles, the hospital psychiatrist who treated Anna Nicole was cross-examined and accused by a defense attorney of removing the celebrity from her addictive drugs too soon and ignoring reports of the model going into distress.

Defense attorney Steve Sadow, the one representing Smith’s boyfriend and lawyer Howard K. Stern did a cross-examination of Dr. Nathalie Maullin who has been critical of the accusation regarding Smith’s doctor overmedicating the model. The questioning that ensued was considered as the first rift in this trial case which is already expected to be dominated by a battle of doctors.

According to Celebrity Gossip, Maullin, during her testimony, testified that she treated the former Playboy Playmate at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center during the times when Smith was pregnant and was reported suffering from borderline personality disorder. Maullin was accused by Sadow of instantly weaning Smith from her Xanax medications and said that the doctor was also very slow in doing action despite of reports of the celebrity having hallucinations, insomnia, and falling down on the bed.

Maullin, on the other hand, confirmed that she did not really rush to the hospital despite of the reports because she did not think anything serious is happening to her client. She also acknowledged a nurse’s report regarding Smith suffering from body pains but stated that it was never shown to her until the model’s death.

Other doctors who were accused of the case are Kapoor, Eroshevich, and Stern. All of them have pleaded not guilty of conspiring to give excessive sedatives and opiate to Smith and are not charged with her death last 2007.

 

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